My sincere thanks to Mr. Phelps and everyone who is keeping this thread of mine alive. I've been meaning to do that myself, but ironically have been consumed with completing a publishing contract. The book should be out in another month or so, and last-minute editing, corrections and cover design revisions have kept me from this, my very favorite playground! I'll be back in full force as soon as possible. Thanks again, fellas!

MAL You gonna ride shotgun, help me fly? V0 River is in the copilot's seat, looking intently at the screens and buttons.

RIVER That's the plan.

MAL Think you can work out how to get her in the -- She is flipping switches without even looking, as the ship hums to life.

EXT. SERENITY - CONTINUING

Her engines fire up and tilt. She lifts gently off the ground.

INT. BRIDGE - CONTINUING

Mal looks slightly, only slightly nonplussed.

MAL Okay, clearly some aptitude for the... but it ain't all buttons and charts, . You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.

RIVER I do. But I like to hear you say it. He looks out at the rain on his windows, at his screens, taking her up as he says:

MAL Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home. River also looks out at the sky.

126.

RIVER Storm's getting worse.

MAL We'll pass through it soon enough.

EXT. SERENITY - CONTINUING

As we shoot up with her through sheeting rain, towards the top of the sky.

EXT. SPACE - MOMENTS LATER

We are looking down on the stormclouds as Serenity bursts out of them, comes at us, flared by the sun behind the planet as she passes us, her Firefly effect lighting up, about to shoot off into the heavens -- There is a spark and a piece of paneling pops off, whips at camera, blacking out the frame.

IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE A TINGLER OF YOURSELF, THE NEXT TIME YOUR FRIGHTEN IN THE DARK, DON'T SCREAM, VINCENT PRICE-THE TINGLER-----------------------------------------it's not that I taken a knife and stabbed her or taken a gun and shot her is it doc-------To deliberately kill someone is murder, no matter how you do it-VINCENT PRICE-THE TINGLER-----Right-on, now if only everyone was smart enough in this world to believe that this would be a better world.

Scottie: This was as far as I could get. But you went on. Remember? The necklace, Madeleine. That was the slip. I remembered the necklace.Judy: Let me go!Scottie: We're going up the tower, Madeleine.Judy: You can't! You're afraid!Scottie: We'll see. We'll see. This is my second chance...

"I've gotten the results of your tests." "I've got cancer." "No." "Something wrong with my blood or urine." "No, they're fine. But there is something..." "Tell me." "You have a brain cloud." "Brain cloud?" "There's a black fog of tissue running right down the center of your brain. It's very rare. It'll spread at a regular rate. It's very destructive." "And it's incurable." "Yes." "How long?" "Six months. You can pretty much count on it being about that. It's not painful. Your brain will simply fail, followed abruptly by your body."

"I've gotten the results of your tests." "I've got cancer." "No." "Something wrong with my blood or urine." "No, they're fine. But there is something..." "Tell me." "You have a brain cloud." "Brain cloud?" "There's a black fog of tissue running right down the center of your brain. It's very rare. It'll spread at a regular rate. It's very destructive." "And it's incurable." "Yes." "How long?" "Six months. You can pretty much count on it being about that. It's not painful. Your brain will simply fail, followed abruptly by your body."